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  Ronald C. Brabbin March 22, 2012 at 5:49pm

  I joined the Navy the day after I got out of high school June 1950.  I enjoyed boot , but wouldn't want to go thru it again. The Korean war started in July. By then the NTC was running at full capacity with 50,000 recruits.  I remember there was a forest fire in the mountains, alot of boot company's were sent to fight fire.  Our chief got us assigned to Coranado strand where they were training Landing craft coxswains, our job was to straighten them out if they started to broach by ropes,  none of them broached.  We swam, played football and played with the radio.  Our chief went for lunch when he came back, he not only had lunch but 2 cases of beer and made us swear we wouldn't breath a word of it.  We had a guy who waited too long to reenlist so he had to just go thru advance and the chief put him in charge, instead of waiting information and lines he would the the guy on the podium we were going to fire fighting school or some other class and he would send us right into the chow hall.  We even had fun mess cooking.  They canceled boot leave. upon graduation they took several of us in a Mboat across the channel to North Island and put us on a triple deck plane, 155 of us and baggage to Moffet field the to Treasure Island, then 32 of us were sent to Alameda Naval air station to a Mars flying boat then to Hawaii, the a cargo plane on to Japan.
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  Alton Ray Adams March 22, 2012 at 5:30pm

  I was there in mid 72 with the first New Mexico all state company. Just wondering if any others were with this group?
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  Timothy N. Brown February 21, 2012 at 10:32pm

  Was there Sept-Dec73 for boot, back for BEEP, and across the High-way to the Fleet ASW school (sonar)1!!

  And loved every second!!

   
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  steve mc cann January 24, 2012 at 8:09pm

  in the first photo i'm on the left side holding the flag. the second photo i'm the one in the middle.
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  steve mc cann January 24, 2012 at 8:01pm

   boot camp was at ntc san diego august of 1970. i was in company 340 with company commander bt1 kennedy. boot camp was 13 week at that time. we were the brigade company at graduation. my barracks (juliet) on the advance side was behind  the old chapel. one time at chow - 4050 came in with one of are former company members - you could here a pin drop - i was so scared.... had it easy during service week at the company commander gear issue building by the " uss never sail." after boot leave,  i was assigned to the uss blue ridge lcc-19 philadelphia,pa.. missed commissioning by a week or so. was a bt3 from 1970 - 1974. blue ridge is still in commission in japan.
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  Daphney Thomas January 17, 2012 at 11:20am

  By the time I made it to NTC San Diego it was September 1994. I'd just graduated boot camp at NTC Orlando and NTC San Diego still had their old boot camp barracks but that side of the base was empty/dead.

  I attended MS "A" school there from September to December 1994. After graduating I was shipped to Yokosuka Naval Base Japan where I worked in the galley and then later ran the BEQ.

  I do remember my instructor was MS 2 Chilla because I ran into him again years later while I was working at the BEQ he was there TAD, I belive he was MS 1 by then.
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  Richard Oropeza January 11, 2012 at 10:17pm

  HM3 Jim Decota here's aerial photos of the NTC/RTC area circa 1973 from my copy of The Anchor....TDE-1 is visible just before the bridge to worm island R & O barracks the parade deck is to the top of the photo....the rest of NTC is visble on the other photo....
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  HARRY L RASMUSSEN JR December 6, 2011 at 3:44pm

  I went to boot camp in July 1969 company 525, after boot camp I went to RM "A" school in San Diego. From there to Ft Alle, Ponce Puerto Rico, from Jan 1970 to Jan 1972. After PR to Naval Shipyards in Philladelphia. Yes the chow at Ft Allen was the tops. I was a tape ape and then on to the Message Center at Ft Allen. I worked the ComCenter at Philly. Was in and out of the reserves until 1984 after my four year hitch. I was back in San Diego for my two week cruise and made it out to Pearl Harbor for two weeks also, berthed on Ford Island for the two weeks. No sea duty for all my time served, was going to go on sea duty in 1984, a costal mine sweep from Alaska to California, but had my orders pulled when I had a bad back injury on my civillian job. That was the end of my Navy days. ....
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  Joseph t farrell October 30, 2011 at 11:56am

  Hey shoremates good memories from ntc 84-86...where are you dorie popovich and shelly dukes???? I recently was found by ken ketchold,hes in touch with ernesto and tammy...i cant remember alot of the names,its been alot of yrs.
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  Jimmy N. Parks October 17, 2011 at 10:57am

  In 1967 the only waves I had an opportunity to speak with called our quarters the "cock block".